Child&#39;s garment



June 4, 1935. D. s. FOODEM 2,003,683

CHILD S GARMENT Filed June 20, 1933 ATTORNEY Patented June 4, 1935 UNITED T T OHILDS GARMENT David S. Foodem, New .York, N. Y.

Application June 20, 1933, Serial No. 676,607

2 Claims.

This invention relates to childrens garments, and has among its objects the provision of a novel garment of this character which shall be especially adapted to be fully opened up and quickly and conveniently applied to a child.

Another object of the invention is to provide a garment of the nature set forth, having few and simple parts, and which shall be inexpensive to manufacture, neat in appearance, durable, reliable, and eflicient in use.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a view in partial side and rear elevation of a child's garment embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a view in rear elevation thereof in closed position.

Fig. 3 is a central cross sectional view of the same.

The advantages of the invention as here outlined are best realized when all of its features and instrumentalities are combined in one and the same structure, but, useful devices may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, that the same may be incorporated in several different constructions. The accompanying drawing, therefore, is submitted merely as showing the preferred exemplification of the invention.

Various types of childrens garments have been known which were provided with legging portions or which were arranged with wide leg receiving portions formed with end sections for snugly embracing around the ankles or adjacent parts of the legs. Such garments have been arranged to open up at a side of the garment, and I have perceived that there has been considerable difiiculty attending the putting on of such garment, because there was insufficient spread upon so laterally opening the garment to permit the child to be conveniently slipped into the garment. By my invention, I have so disposed the slit in the garment as to facilitate the full and uniform opening up of the garment to overcome the defects above noted, and thus to afliord a novel unitary warm and adequately protective childs garment which can conveniently and expeditiously receive the legs and waist portion of the child, and likewise permit such garment to be similarly wholly or partially removed from the child, as may be required.

By providing a garment of this character with convenient leg receiving portions coupled with a central waist opening as distinguished from a side opening, the garment can be used with comfort to the child and the parent in clothing the child, and in removing the garment, wholly or partially, to expose a desired portion of the child's body.

The invention includes a childs garment 3| of the type generally known in the trade as Snow pants, and extending from the waist line 32 to the ankles as at 33, and having longitudinal seams as at am. The garment may have a waist portion 34 and depending relatively wide leg portions 35, terminating at their lower ends in sections adapted to snugly embrace the child's legs but said sections being in this case of a contractile material 36, that may be rubberized, knitted, or otherwise arranged to possess a degree of resilience. The waist portion 34 of the garment is provided with an opening extending from the waist line 32 to the crotch of the garment and adapted to be closed by a releasable fastening means, such as a slide fastener 31 having a slide 38 and mounted to be normally covered over on the inside and outside as by flap 30 and beads 21 respectively. A distinguishing characteristic of the garment 3 I, is that the slide fastener is located at the rear of the garment, whereby the advantage is had of opening up the waist; portion at the normally larger rear part of the garment, affording large flap sections such as 39, whereby the child can be readily slipped into the garment, or the waist part of the garment downwardly moved. It will be noted that the opening and its slide fastener 31 may be extended into and somewhat beyond the center of the crotch if desired as shown at 40, so that an increased opening up of the waist portion of the garment may be obtained. Since the garment is elastic at the waist band 22, on opening the slide fastener, the elastic causes the flaps 39 to be immediately pulled forward and to be so maintained while the garment is thus open, and thus to facilitate convenience in use thereof.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a. garment which combines facilities for the expeditious insertion into a garment of the legs and of the waist portion of the child, said garment being a unitary article, and which adequately and neatly covers the childs body.

I claim:

1. A childs unitary garment consisting of a waist portion and leg portions, the waist portion being shaped to conform to the corresponding front and back portions of the body of the child, the back of the waist portion having a slit extending substantially centrally from the top edge oflthe waistporuon to the crotch and along the same substantially to the front face'of the waist portion to provide equal rear flaps when the slit is open, means for releasably closing said slit, and the waist portion having elastic means extending along said top edge, whereby to pull the flaps frontward on opening said"mans, to afford full exposure of the adjacent part of the childs body.

2. A child's unitary outer garment confined substantially to the region from the waist to the feet and having leg portions and a waist portion, the garment having rear thigh receiving portions, the waist portion being continuously closed at the front and sides and having a rear central slit extending continuously from the upper edge of the waist portion to and along the crotch up to the front of "the gament;"means for continuously releasably closing said slit," and elastic means extending from the region of the slit in opposite directions along the upper edge of the waist portion and secured thereto, as set forth.

DAVID S. FOODEM. 

